"There's nothing more satisfying than being stupid with a friend."
- Fiona Wood
"I'm floating. The absence of pain is powerful."
"My heart is its own fierce country where no one else is welcome."
"Van Uoc felt the stab of a sad truth: she and her mother would never be as close as her mother and grandmother had been.Her mother got up, stretched her tidy, graceful frame and headed for the kitchen..."
"She'd always been comforted by how many words there were in the English language -- more than a million. With so many words surely anything could be said, everything could be under"
"Vân Uoc decided that she too would get to know the book inside out. And something miraculous happened when they were about a quarter of the way through reading it. After weeks of ploughing and hesitat..."
"We combine our three packs of pasta for dinner – pesto. We tip the dried stuff into a pan, add water and simmer. We try it, looking at each other with disbelief as it hits the tastebuds. ‘It’s pesto, ..."
"How many times do your feet have to press down on a path before they make an imprint, before pieces of soul start sticking?"
"REVISITING THE LIST1. Kiss EstelleOkay, at least I've met her. She thinks I'm a creep. And that's withought her knowing I've read her diaries. Unless we somehow fall over, exactly aligned, lip to lip,..."
"I don't think I fully appreciated how relaxing it is having someone I can be really mean to. It's going to be so hard being nice all the time."